Ord 1797 - AMENDING CHAPTER 16 OF THE TOWN CODE TOORDINANCE NO. 1797
AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS
AMENDING CHAPTER 16 OF THE TOWN CODE TO
AMEND SECTION 16.61 RELATING TO PLACEMENT AND MEANINGS
OF CURB MARKINGS FOR PARKING REGULATIONS TOWN WIDE
THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS DOES HEREBY ORDAIN:
SECTION I
SECTION 16.61 OF THE TOWN CODE IS HEREBY AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 16.61 Placement and meanings of curb markings for parking
regulations
(a) The Chief of Police is authorized, subject to the provisions and
limitations of this chapter, to place, and when required herein shall
place, the following curb markings to indicate parking or standing
regulations, and such curb markings shall have the meanings as herein set
forth.
(1) Red shall man no stopping, standing or parking as any time except as
permitted by the Vehicle Code of the state, and except that a bus may stop
in a red zone marked or signed as a bus zone.
(2) Yellow shall mean no stopping, standing or parking at any time be-
tween nine a.m. and six p.m. of any day except holidays for any purpose
other than the loading or unloading of passengers or materials, provided,
that the loading or unloading of passengers or materials; provided, that
the loading or unloading of passengers shall not consume more than three
minutes, the loading or unloading of materials more than thirty minutes.
(3) White shall mean no stopping, standing or parking at any time of any
day for any purpose other than loading or unloading of passengers, which
shall not exceed ten minutes.
(4) Green shall mean no stopping, standing or parking for longer than
thirty minutes at any time between the hours of eight a.m. and eight p.m.
seven days a week, including holidays.
(b) Where curb markings have been heretofore placed by authority of this
town, and when the chief of police, as authorized under this chapter, has
caused curb markings to be placed, no person shall stop, stand or park a
vehicle adjacent to any such legible curb marking in violation of any of
the provisions of this section. (Ord. No. 321 Sec. 96; Ord. No. 1288,
Sec. 1.)
SECTION II
This Ordinance takes effect thirty days after the date it is adopted.
Within fifteen days after this Ordinance the Town Clerk shall cause it to be
published once in a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated
in the Town.
This ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the Town Council of
the Town of Los Gatos on August 21, 1989, and adopted by the following vote as
an ordinance of the Town of Los Gatos at a regular meeting of the Town Council
on September 5, 1989•
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS Thomas J. Ferrito, Robert L. Hamilton,
Brent N. Ventura, Mayor Joanne Benjamin
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS Eric D. Carlson
SIGNED:
ATTEST:
YOR OF THE TOWN OF/LDS GATOS
CLERK OF THE TOWN OF S GATOS